Nested class problem

[FJ39j39fs]

I want to make methods inside hero class with dynamic memory allocation like initialization, adding, deleting objects, but compiler says that it cannot find declaration.
Error: 'Skill' has not been declared.
Thanks for help in advance.
Error appears in 6th line.

  class Hero
{
    public:
        Hero();
        Hero(std::string fname);
        void addSkill(Skill *skill);

    protected:

    private:
        class Skill {
            friend class Hero;
            std::string name;
            int dmgMultiplier;
            static int skills_size;
        };

        Skill **skills;
};

[dhayden]

At line 6, Skill indeed as not been declared. Just rearrange the class:

class Hero
{
    private:
        class Skill {
            friend class Hero;
            std::string name;
            int dmgMultiplier;
            static int skills_size;
        };

        Skill **skills;
    public:
        Hero();
        Hero(std::string fname);
        void addSkill(Skill *skill);

    protected:

};

addSkill() is public, but it takes the private Skill class as a parameter. How is, say, main() supposed to call addSkill() when it can't even declare a variable of type Hero::Skill?

Also, unless you're doing dynamic memory allocation as an exercise, use vector<> instead. It will save you a ton of headaches.

[FJ39j39fs]

Thank you so much dhayden. That's helped me a lot.